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War of the Worlds. Chess army from planet Earth against the Martian forces of Jetan. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Nuno wrote on Wed, Oct 15, 2008 04:00 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
I prefer this set up for Omega chess than the official one.
It is a regular board without odd citadels - althoug I myself created a
'citaldeled' chess variant (Shutur) - and on the more than natural
'Great Chess' board, the 10x10. With this setup you have exactly the
same opening lines of chess, because the pieces of FIDE chess are as if on
their usual 8x8 positions and distancies; so Knights don't have minor
powers and it wouldnt be needed the 'Templar Knigt' patch..

But don't get me wrong. I like Omega chess and even have one of the
'first' boards they produced (nr. 816 I believe). It is a good game
(probably the finest way to put and combine Tamerlane weak pieces on a
functional, atractive and facinating good game.

Daniil Frolov wrote on Sun, Jun 20, 2010 02:07 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Interesting, what about playing with one of 'human' armies against another human army? Of course, Turkish army will win most of games, but what about others?

Claudio Martins Jaguaribe wrote on Sun, Jun 20, 2010 04:48 PM UTC:
Daniil, did you took a look to the Clash of Civilizations variant, by Namik Zede?

Hugs!

PS: Where are you from?

Hafsteinn Kjartansson wrote on Thu, Jun 24, 2010 11:21 PM UTC:
how do pieces move?

Daniil Frolov wrote on Fri, Jun 25, 2010 07:15 AM UTC:
Jetan:
http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/jetan.html
Shako:
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/shako.html
Grand chess:
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/freeling.html
Omega chess (with different opening steup):
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/omega/rules.html
Xhes:
http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/xhess.html
Turkish chess:
http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/indiangr1.html

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